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SUSE: 2020:3548-1 Critical: OpenSSL Vulnerability Exploit Risk

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2016
Dist Suse Esm H88
A crucial security patch from SUSE resolves multiple weaknesses in the ghostscript-library affecting various applications.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for ghostscript-library fixes the following issues: - Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered where ghostscript's "-dsafer" flag did not provide sufficient protection against unintended access to the file system. Thus, a machine that would process a specially crafted Postscript file would potentially leak sensitive information to an attacker. (CVE-2013-5653, bsc#1001951) - An incorrect reference count was found in .setdevice. This issue lead to a use-after-free scenario, which could have been exploited for denial-of-service or, possibly, arbitrary code execution attacks. (CVE-2016-7978, bsc#1001951) - Insufficient validation of the type of input in .initialize_dsc_parser used to allow remote code execution. (CVE-2016-7979, bsc#1001951) Patch Instructions:

References

#1001951

Cross- CVE-2013-5653 CVE-2016-7978 CVE-2016-7979

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5653.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7978.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7979.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001951

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2492-1
Rating: important

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